Doesn't appear to be available in the USA, but the Nokia 1100 is (IMHO) the best "plain" mobile phone on the UK market. (There might be a USA-variant model of it)
Mono screen. Monophonic ringtones. Phone calls and SMS text messaging only - no MMS, no WAP, no internet. No camera. The only "toy" feature is a white LED torch on the top.
Small without being fiddly - keypad is pretty decent, menu system is Nokia's normal pleasant low-end-phone one again.
Most importantly - my mum has no problem using hers at all.
The rest of the world uses the term "beg the question" in the way which sounds sensible to normal people. The most appropriate name for the logical fallacy you linked to would be "begging the answer".
My best friend is a Philosopher and even he agrees with me on this point. (And do be careful to not commit a No True Scotsman if replying to this point)
I'm not sure if this holds for xbox owners (I didn't watch my friend loading it up when he brought his xbox round to my place for a massive launch-day dual-format playfest), but on PS2 PAL we get the option to start the game in 50Hz or 60Hz during the "boot process".
A lot of tv sets can handle this devious "PAL 60" trick - which then lets you play all other 60Hz players (including those in the states and Japan, as well as other PAL players who chose 60Hz), at the expense of not being able to play in 50Hz games unless you reboot. The Lobby system makes it clear which games you can't join due to frequency mismatch, and doesn't show "wrong mode" games in the search facility.
It's not optimal, but it is at least possible to join US NTSC games on a PAL machine (on ps2 at least). We can join your games, you can join ours - if we run in 60Hz. Most of the time, PAL players will switch into PAL60 and go looking round the US lobbies if the time of day means the UK one is quiet.
Correctly implemented AES is not what he's got in a stock 64-bit-WEP access point (where "he" is the person whose comment I was replying to - that comment is now at -1 Troll for some unknown reason).
We already know that old-style standard WEP can be defeated. Grandparent wasn't discussing this new arrangement in his post - hence, neither was I.
Having recently been burned in an ebay-ipodmini-scam sort of way (lessons learned: Mr Smallprint is NOT your friend, and boy am I glad I paid by credit card - my card company are sending me a dispute form and they're positive they can just chargeback and refund me), I can now rationalize why I'm going to go drop a heap of cash on a 40gb Clickwheel (i.e. 4th-gen) iPod in a couple of weeks:
No other jukebox-type player I've seen on the market puts all of its controls big and clear on the front face of the device such that I'd be happy trying to make quick easy adjustments to it while driving (presuming I can find a suitable air-vent mount solution to hold it up in place for me). All the others I've seen have subtle little controls often spread around the sides as well, or generally don't have the big clear control design of the Clickwheel layout.
(Also, I *have* always secretly longed to be a label-whore. I will be leaving the "mug me!" headphones at home though.)
Not having a mac I don't have any links to hand, but you can already get an app for Symbian phones (don't know if it's for series60 or UIQ or both) to do various bits of Mac remote control by bluetooth. I'd *conjecture* (given the leetness of applescript) one should be able to control airtunes (as it's just new stuff in iTunes) using that sort of arrangement.
You'd have to bite the bullet and dualboot into Windows, but consider DVD Shrink. It does very effective MPEG2 transcoding to make your input disc fit on dvdr media. Also does not take ANYWHERE near as long to mpeg2-transcode a whole dvd (optinally retains special features, subtitles, multi audio tracks) as it would to divx/xvid the main feature.
I am unaware of any Linux-based (or fully OSS) similar packages, but that's because I don't use Linux on my desktop PC.
Well *RATS* - it's back down to 3 already - looks like I wasn't alone in having reservations about it, but WAS alone in being overly bothered what the metamodders might think:-)
Dammit, I'm sitting here with modpoints and know in my heart that I ought to "-1 Offtopic" this. The topic is about doing stuff with OSS, and the software being plugged by parent is resolutely CLOSED. I wouldn't be anywhere near as bothered had the parent pointed out that "yeah, it's closed-source, but...".
I also know that such a moderation on this comment would be very unlikely to make it through metamoderation unscathed. Also, others aren't very likely to join in and put this BLATANT ADVERT back down at 1 or 2 where it belongs.
Perhaps I should use the "-1 Overrated" in situations such as this, in order to avoid being metamodded at all on this one - that feels a bit brutal and nasty to me, though.
I'm not sure how to design-out this sort of difficult decision, so I'll just have a bit of a gripe-and-bitch about it instead.
It's worth pointing out that European PayPal users (myself included) are now actually users/customers of PayPal (Europe) Ltd which has a physical presence over here (company offices in England as far as I can tell, possibly an extra customer service centre in Ireland).
There is a specific heap of EU legislation relating to Electronic Cash Issuers (not banks, just e-money services such as PayPal) - PayPal have now created this EU company and obtained the relevant license in order to do what they do in compliance with the European rules.
The revised ToS for affected users include:
*) that PayPal can only lock the funds related to a specific disputed transaction - not your entire account balance *) a clear explanation of your financial position in relation to them (that your account balance represents an unsecured debt from them to you - if they tank, you might potentially be stuffed) *) Jurisdictional stuff setting the venue for any suing of them by "us" to be England, and pointing out our right to go to the UK's Financial Ombudsman Service or the Courts for relief in the event of a dispute with them - no attempts at all at a "you cannot sue us" clause.
As a UK-based occasional PayPal user, I'm pretty pleased with this new arrangement. This move into the UK also means I could invoke the Data Protection Act to obtain any "hidden" information on my account in the event of a dispute.
These changes haven't been hidden - all EU-based members have been emailed about this and the information is on the "updates" column on the left on your main account overview page.
"... ATM lawsuits are SCO's entire business and product line. "
How true... Just the other day, all of the hole-in-the-wall cash machines here were out of action, with pieces of paper jammed into the card slots and other openings.
(for this piece of appaling postifying, I passed up the chance to moderate this thread)
Flash "disk" controllers take care of wear-levelling automatically; even though you're writing to the same logical block number on the disk, it's actually not the same spot in the flash every time.
It's been 6+ beautiful months since I was last an AOL customer (side-effect of no wired lan in university halls, only a landline which was actually through some 2-bit student telephone service), but I think AOL have a webmail service. There are also many established approaches to authenticating users back in to their "home" SMTP server (pop3-before-send and more) which would make this a non-issue.
Those facilities aside, this isn't your ISP making any such decision of "you can't use your personal email address while you're at work" - merely that if you do that and not use their SMTP host then you risk being filtered by your intended recipients.
As with all filter services (like blacklists for dial-up ip blocks or spam-friendly hosts) it's up to the recipient how much to care about it - what score weighting to give it in SpamAssassin or whatever.
Immediately underneath their blue cross-bar under their tab navigation stuff, at the right, are the magic words "Free RealOne Player".
If you look closely in the Preferences dialog you can also disable the "check for new messages" junk which is also a major source of pissing-everyone-off.
Not having a laptop, I take my WiFi'd up Zaurus in with me and catch up on my daily intake of web comics. Also, the BBC News mobile text-only edition works very well in Opera on the Z. Slashdot is a bit too cramped (even the Lite variation) for my tastes.
Oh, and a small pair of cheap passive speakers and whatever media player it is I've got installed, for streaming mp3 music.
No No NO. Did you not read the Groklaw article yesterday or thereabouts pointing out that this scenario is not true?
The penalty for abusing GPLd code is not the compulsory re-licensing of everything. If you're in breach of the terms of the GPL license, then you're breaking copyright law. Nothing makes their proprietary code suddenly open, unless they decide to comply with the GPL rather than fight/settle/re-code.
Slashdot Mirror
Mono screen. Monophonic ringtones. Phone calls and SMS text messaging only - no MMS, no WAP, no internet. No camera. The only "toy" feature is a white LED torch on the top.
Small without being fiddly - keypad is pretty decent, menu system is Nokia's normal pleasant low-end-phone one again.
Most importantly - my mum has no problem using hers at all.
link to nokia's product page
The rest of the world uses the term "beg the question" in the way which sounds sensible to normal people. The most appropriate name for the logical fallacy you linked to would be "begging the answer".
My best friend is a Philosopher and even he agrees with me on this point. (And do be careful to not commit a No True Scotsman if replying to this point)
A properly trained owner will bring me whatever I desire without me having to resort to violence.
Best Regards,
A Cat.
I'm not sure if this holds for xbox owners (I didn't watch my friend loading it up when he brought his xbox round to my place for a massive launch-day dual-format playfest), but on PS2 PAL we get the option to start the game in 50Hz or 60Hz during the "boot process".
A lot of tv sets can handle this devious "PAL 60" trick - which then lets you play all other 60Hz players (including those in the states and Japan, as well as other PAL players who chose 60Hz), at the expense of not being able to play in 50Hz games unless you reboot. The Lobby system makes it clear which games you can't join due to frequency mismatch, and doesn't show "wrong mode" games in the search facility.
It's not optimal, but it is at least possible to join US NTSC games on a PAL machine (on ps2 at least). We can join your games, you can join ours - if we run in 60Hz. Most of the time, PAL players will switch into PAL60 and go looking round the US lobbies if the time of day means the UK one is quiet.
Correctly implemented AES is not what he's got in a stock 64-bit-WEP access point (where "he" is the person whose comment I was replying to - that comment is now at -1 Troll for some unknown reason).
We already know that old-style standard WEP can be defeated. Grandparent wasn't discussing this new arrangement in his post - hence, neither was I.
Sufficient for what?
Keeping a serious attacker away from your data, if it's specifically you he's after? Possibly not.
Keeping a casual war(mode-of-transport)'er out of your WLAN to stop him leeching your bandwidth? Probably.
It's "an HREF tag", surely?
Having recently been burned in an ebay-ipodmini-scam sort of way (lessons learned: Mr Smallprint is NOT your friend, and boy am I glad I paid by credit card - my card company are sending me a dispute form and they're positive they can just chargeback and refund me), I can now rationalize why I'm going to go drop a heap of cash on a 40gb Clickwheel (i.e. 4th-gen) iPod in a couple of weeks:
No other jukebox-type player I've seen on the market puts all of its controls big and clear on the front face of the device such that I'd be happy trying to make quick easy adjustments to it while driving (presuming I can find a suitable air-vent mount solution to hold it up in place for me). All the others I've seen have subtle little controls often spread around the sides as well, or generally don't have the big clear control design of the Clickwheel layout.
(Also, I *have* always secretly longed to be a label-whore. I will be leaving the "mug me!" headphones at home though.)
Yes, only integer men use linux.
Real men probably use BSD.
(Please, don't ask me what Complex men might use - I've not thought this through well enough to cope with that).
Umm, it's already "Recording Industry Association of America". Says so right in their <title> tags.
Not having a mac I don't have any links to hand, but you can already get an app for Symbian phones (don't know if it's for series60 or UIQ or both) to do various bits of Mac remote control by bluetooth. I'd *conjecture* (given the leetness of applescript) one should be able to control airtunes (as it's just new stuff in iTunes) using that sort of arrangement.
Thank heavens for that... How much oil do you get out of an average virgin anyway?
Surely, quantum mechanics might or might not be part of the axis of evil?
You'd have to bite the bullet and dualboot into Windows, but consider DVD Shrink. It does very effective MPEG2 transcoding to make your input disc fit on dvdr media. Also does not take ANYWHERE near as long to mpeg2-transcode a whole dvd (optinally retains special features, subtitles, multi audio tracks) as it would to divx/xvid the main feature.
I am unaware of any Linux-based (or fully OSS) similar packages, but that's because I don't use Linux on my desktop PC.
Well *RATS* - it's back down to 3 already - looks like I wasn't alone in having reservations about it, but WAS alone in being overly bothered what the metamodders might think :-)
Dammit, I'm sitting here with modpoints and know in my heart that I ought to "-1 Offtopic" this. The topic is about doing stuff with OSS, and the software being plugged by parent is resolutely CLOSED. I wouldn't be anywhere near as bothered had the parent pointed out that "yeah, it's closed-source, but...".
I also know that such a moderation on this comment would be very unlikely to make it through metamoderation unscathed. Also, others aren't very likely to join in and put this BLATANT ADVERT back down at 1 or 2 where it belongs.
Perhaps I should use the "-1 Overrated" in situations such as this, in order to avoid being metamodded at all on this one - that feels a bit brutal and nasty to me, though.
I'm not sure how to design-out this sort of difficult decision, so I'll just have a bit of a gripe-and-bitch about it instead.
It's worth pointing out that European PayPal users (myself included) are now actually users/customers of PayPal (Europe) Ltd which has a physical presence over here (company offices in England as far as I can tell, possibly an extra customer service centre in Ireland).
There is a specific heap of EU legislation relating to Electronic Cash Issuers (not banks, just e-money services such as PayPal) - PayPal have now created this EU company and obtained the relevant license in order to do what they do in compliance with the European rules.
The revised ToS for affected users include:
*) that PayPal can only lock the funds related to a specific disputed transaction - not your entire account balance
*) a clear explanation of your financial position in relation to them (that your account balance represents an unsecured debt from them to you - if they tank, you might potentially be stuffed)
*) Jurisdictional stuff setting the venue for any suing of them by "us" to be England, and pointing out our right to go to the UK's Financial Ombudsman Service or the Courts for relief in the event of a dispute with them - no attempts at all at a "you cannot sue us" clause.
As a UK-based occasional PayPal user, I'm pretty pleased with this new arrangement. This move into the UK also means I could invoke the Data Protection Act to obtain any "hidden" information on my account in the event of a dispute.
These changes haven't been hidden - all EU-based members have been emailed about this and the information is on the "updates" column on the left on your main account overview page.
How true... Just the other day, all of the hole-in-the-wall cash machines here were out of action, with pieces of paper jammed into the card slots and other openings.
(for this piece of appaling postifying, I passed up the chance to moderate this thread)
"Realdoll" is all one word. IIRC, and their site agrees with me.
Flash "disk" controllers take care of wear-levelling automatically; even though you're writing to the same logical block number on the disk, it's actually not the same spot in the flash every time.
It's been 6+ beautiful months since I was last an AOL customer (side-effect of no wired lan in university halls, only a landline which was actually through some 2-bit student telephone service), but I think AOL have a webmail service. There are also many established approaches to authenticating users back in to their "home" SMTP server (pop3-before-send and more) which would make this a non-issue.
Those facilities aside, this isn't your ISP making any such decision of "you can't use your personal email address while you're at work" - merely that if you do that and not use their SMTP host then you risk being filtered by your intended recipients.
As with all filter services (like blacklists for dial-up ip blocks or spam-friendly hosts) it's up to the recipient how much to care about it - what score weighting to give it in SpamAssassin or whatever.
Immediately underneath their blue cross-bar under their tab navigation stuff, at the right, are the magic words "Free RealOne Player".
If you look closely in the Preferences dialog you can also disable the "check for new messages" junk which is also a major source of pissing-everyone-off.
Not having a laptop, I take my WiFi'd up Zaurus in with me and catch up on my daily intake of web comics. Also, the BBC News mobile text-only edition works very well in Opera on the Z. Slashdot is a bit too cramped (even the Lite variation) for my tastes.
Oh, and a small pair of cheap passive speakers and whatever media player it is I've got installed, for streaming mp3 music.
No No NO. Did you not read the Groklaw article yesterday or thereabouts pointing out that this scenario is not true?
The penalty for abusing GPLd code is not the compulsory re-licensing of everything. If you're in breach of the terms of the GPL license, then you're breaking copyright law. Nothing makes their proprietary code suddenly open, unless they decide to comply with the GPL rather than fight/settle/re-code.
And they provide 192kbit+ unencumbered mp3 files?